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AVC: So were you happy to come back in order for Gil and Sara to literally sail off into the sunset?

WP: Well, yeah, that was kind of… [Hesitates.] I mean, what are you going to do after all these years and everything, and you’re supposed to do a wrap-up in two hours? If they’d said, “Why don’t you do a wrap-up over several episodes?” we’d’ve done something different. But they sort of just sprang it on us after they canceled the show. They said, “Do you want to say goodbye?” And it was, like, “How do you do that?” We had to write it in six weeks and shoot it in four and then put it on the air. It was a cram job to get it done.

But they had asked me, “What do you think Grissom’s been doing?” And I said, “Well, I think he’s in the ocean. I think he’s sick of dead bodies and bugs, and he wants to save fish.” So we put that together, and then they said, “Well, what are we going to do about you and Sara? The fans are desperate for you to deal with that.” So I said, “Well, just let ’em sail off into the sunset!” [Laughs.] I mean, if that’s what they want, why at this point would we care? Give ’em what they want! And I just thought it was sort of nice, in that we’d tried to stay away from that stuff all along. We even tried at the end to just keep it as simple as possible: off they go onto the boat. So I was good with it. I just hope that the fans, the people who watched it, were happy about it.

It’s nice to know that Billy was somewhat responsible for sailing into the sunset. It may have been trite, but you know what, I was happy about it.

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I really do miss it. There are several new shows I have tried the past few years and I have quit watching after just a few episodes. I know most shows don’t get more than a few seasons, but I hate seeing character development rushed. I love the science of CSI, but my favorite part is the characters and relationships …who were developed slowly (at times agonizingly slow). I have said it before, but it is nearly unheard of to make it to 8 seasons with the original cast still intact and to me that was a huge part of the magic. I loved those characters and they ushered me into adulthood (I was a college freshman when the show piloted). I miss them all…hope to see Jorja find something to sink her teeth into soon.

I really miss it. I find it interesting that Billy said he would have come back if they had given them a few episodes to wrap things up. Earlier, I got the feeling he only came back because it was basically a one-off. Makes me even sadder now knowing that we might have had more episodes. I will always miss CSI. It was an original and nothing that came after coold top it. And I am glad they sailed off together. No big mushy scene, just climbs into the boat, words not necessary.

Was there an interview somewhere of billy, jorja or Anthony saying they would love to do a csi TV movie in a couple of years or something? I know the Anthony interview where he said about csi 2.0. I know it was said in passing in an interview, could have sworn it was billy.